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Essential Learning Objectives:
- Identify particular and unique academic and personal needs of students as essential library employees;
- Recognize the inherent transferrable skills present in student library work;
- Understand the differences between managing and mentoring as discrete entities which do and will overlap
- Apply clear and constructive feedback to students at reasonable intervals;
- Design clear, concise, and accessible training steps (including a training manual) for students bearing in mind the array of learning styles that exist;
- Understand and clarify what daily supervision vs. long term, on job mentoring.
- Create an expectation of professionalism based on clear development plans for student workers;
- Commit to diverse student backgrounds by implementing an equitable management approach.
Speaker
Dr. Michelle Reale is the Access Services and Outreach Librarian at Arcadia University. She is the author of eight ALA Edition titles including Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library (2012), Communities of Practice in the Academic Library: Strategies for Implementation (ALA Editions, 2022) and Becoming a Reflective Librarian and Teacher: Strategies for Mindful Academic Practice (2016). Her research interests include critical reflective practice, mentoring, embedded librarianship, and information literacy among many others.